Wilhelm Bluhm (resistance fighter)

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Wilhelm Bluhm (born December 24, 1898 in Linden (now a district of Hanover ), † July 25, 1942 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp , Oranienburg ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism . He was involved in the then Hanoverian workers' district of Linden in the resistance movement Socialist Front . In 1936 he was arrested.

Life

Nedderfeldstrasse 8, corner of Elisenstrasse in Linden-Nord ; Wilhelm Bluhm lived on the 2nd floor on the right
Stumbling block for Wilhelm Bluhm in front of Nedderfeldstrasse 8
Commemorative plaque on a building of the Faust cultural center

Wilhelm Bluhm grew up as one of nine children in a working-class family. He was the third child and first son of his parents. Bluhm's father, the metal worker of the same name, Wilhelm Bluhm, came from what was then the province of Posen . Before moving to Hanover, he had lived in Alsace . There the original family name "Blum" was changed to "Bluhm". Bluhm's mother, Karoline Bluhm nee Dismer, came from Elze in the Hanover region. Since the family continued to grow due to the numerous births, Wilhelm moved twelve times in his youth - always within the later district of Hanover-Linden. After the elementary school he started a locksmith apprenticeship in Hanomag . Since the father died early (1917), the eldest son Wilhelm took care of the younger siblings. Towards the end of the First World War he was drafted and served for a short time in a workshop company. In 1919 Wilhelm moved into his mother's apartment (Nedderfeldstrasse 8).

In the 1920s and 1930s Bluhm worked as a locksmith in various companies, including the Hannoversche Waggonfabrik , Daimler-Benz and Hanomag .

Early on, Bluhm was involved in the socialist youth workers and the German metal workers' association . Around 1918 he joined the SPD , for which he later worked as the cashier of the 23rd department in Linden-Nord. In the early 1930s, the Linden resident, who remained unmarried, joined the Reichsbanner and the Iron Front , organizations of the SPD and the unions that campaigned against the National Socialists.

From 1934 Bluhm was a member of the Socialist Front , which developed into the largest social democratic resistance organization in the Third Reich, and distributed the newspaper Sozialistische Blätter , which was banned by the National Socialists .

After the first major wave of arrests against members of the Socialist Front, Wilhelm Bluhm took over the management of the fourth Linden-North department from Willy Wendt in the spring of 1935 .

In 1936 the Socialist Front was smashed after the Gestapo managed to smuggle in a spy. Bluhm was arrested on September 15, 1936 in his apartment in the Nedderfeldstraße eight and five and a half years prison sentenced, he in Hameln was serving. After serving his sentence, the National Socialists took him into “ protective custody ” on September 30, 1941 and transported him, together with other members of the Socialist Front , to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

His funeral on August 26, 1942 under the supervision of the Gestapo was tantamount to a demonstration. At least 250 members of the SPD took part in the urn burial at the Ricklingen city cemetery in Hanover. On November 3, 1949, his conviction was formally overturned, and from 1948 his mother received a small pension of 60 DM per month.

Quotes

  • “It won't be long before the 'Linden Alps' are full of flowers. I want to hope that we can enjoy it together next year. ” (From a letter from Wilhelm Bluhm to his family from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, dated on the day of his death)

Honors

  • The Gummistrraße in Linden-Nord , which was laid out in 1885 and named after the Mittelland-Gummiwerke that was formerly located there , was renamed in 1950 after the aircraft fitter and resistance fighter in Wilhelm-Bluhm-Straße
  • The urn Wilhelm Bluhms was on 26 August 1942 the town cemetery Ricklingen buried; the place was later marked as a grave of honor (section U32, no. 20).
  • A memorial plaque was attached to a building of the Faust cultural center .
  • On March 3, 2009, a stumbling block for Wilhelm Bluhm was set in Nedderfeldstrasse 8, Hannover-Linden, by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig

literature

  • Jonny Peter, Holger Horstmann: Wilhelm Bluhm. A resistance fighter from Linden. District series “Lindener Geschichtsblätter”, issue 4, Hanover 2009.
  • B. Rabe: The “Socialist Front”. Social Democrats against Fascism 1933–1936. 1984.
  • K. Theilen (arr.): Sozialistische Blätter 1933–1936. The organ of the social democratic resistance in Hanover. 2000.
  • Klaus Mlynek : Bluhm, Wilhelm. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 57 and others; online through google books
  • Klaus Mlynek: Bluhm, Wilhelm. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 69.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Bluhm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Wilhelm-Bluhm-Strasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 267
  2. ↑ KLaus Mlynek: BLUHM, Wilhelm (see bibliography)
  3. ↑ Silke Beck, Cordula Wächtler, Klaus Helmer (ed.), Ella Weber (text): Stadtfriedhof Ricklingen [with history, development, overview plan], ed. from the green space office Hanover, July 2002, Stadtfriedhof Ricklingen as PDF document , p. 30
personal data
SURNAME Bluhm, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters in the Third Reich
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Linden trees
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1942
Place of death Sachsenhausen concentration camp , Oranienburg